Welcome to 2008!

It is 2008 already and another year of study and work have started for mea gain. I have been getting through alot of work recently with good success both in teaching and study.

Um, I have also moved into a "oneroom" apartment close to university which will hopefully be better for my study and work because it is so convenient. It is a little expensive though>_<

Korean school is going great and I have a new teacher this year Mr Han who was a Korean Professor in Korea before coming to NZ so his teaching is really great. We have to do a speech next month about "If I lived in Korea..." so I am thinking about that topic now.

I am also learning some Japanese from on of my collegues, Junko, for whom I edit the English in some of her assignments. They have such a complicated writing system it might take me a while though!

Finally, my health is good and I am still a vegetarian - have been for over 18 months now! Most people cannot tell though because I am not skinny and I don't care about animals too much which is because I am a vegetarian for health reasons not for religious or ethical ones.

New Zealand has an election this year coming up and as one of my hobbies is politics these days I have written a Constitution for New Zealand which I have posted on the Internet. It was one of those things that i had to get written down before my head exploded with ideas. The site is www.nzconstitution.weebly.com

My younger brother Liam and his wife Melissa are moving down to Hamilton next month after living in Auckland for nearly 8 years. And my older sister Bernadette and her boyfriend Richard are looking at returning to NZ in September after nearly 4 years away in England. They of course will take more than 3 months to return by going slowly through Africa and any other part of the world they hevent already seen in their "Great Race".

I will give you another update soon after I stop procrastinating and get some work done on my latest linguistics assignment!

Owen